JAN.
2’9, 18981
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mutefbe tbe Gatee,
Prince Schonaich-Carolath recently, raised tile
question of the higlier education of wotpen ih the
lceichstag, more particularly in the matter crf.medica1
WOMEN.
diplomas, and urged that the servkes offemale doctors
The Queen has decided would be a priceless boon to working-women., \Ve
that the old Palace at Kew are glad to note that the Secretary of:Siatk, i$‘reply,
shall beopened as a Public said that the question of higher stu& ‘for wvo-men
Museum. Her Majestyhas ’was receiving more favourable atteniion ’ from ., !lie
also directed that the State authorities thanhad hitherto been the case.
Rooms at Kensington Prussian Minister of Public Worship has stated that
I-lalace, which have been womenwill henceforth be admitted to the find high
closed for years, shaIl be school examination, qualifying them for the University.
thrown. open to the public.
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A Times telegram from Paris ‘chronicles the passing
Miss Emily Dsvies has received a contribution of into law of a Bill giving women theright to vote
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towards the Girton ’ College Extension Fund,
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in the elections for tribunals of commerce.
Good
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from Mr. F. C. Mathieson, of Beechworth, Hampstead.
The gift is of special interest as Mr. Mathieson has
“Women in the Medical Erofession’l’wastl<e subject
intimate knowledge of the work of the College, of an address ’delivered t y Mrs. Scharkb, I@:,D., to a
‘having daughterswho have passed through the course. crowded audience at the Women’s Institute, qrosvenor
Crescent, on Tuesday evening last.’ . hk.. .Bamford
Duringthelast
yearin
the United Kingdom, Slack was in the chair,-’andamongst ,those present
twenty-five ladies, whose personalty amounted to two were Mrs. Garrett Anderson, M.D., Mrs. . Ha$s
and a half millions, bequeathed nearly one-fourth of Hammond,Mrs.Fenwick Miller, and“Miss Elspet)
this to charities. Savs the Wotnnds SfmaZ. “ If onlv ,Philipps. Mrs. Scharlieb remarked that women, from
the greater part of this large sum totaihad’ been -l& verv earl+ times had Dractised medicine to a’areater or
for women, how future generations would arise to call less extgnt. In m6dern times thefirit.‘goman to
the donors blessed.” It is an extraordinary fact that practise was Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, viho . took her
whilst work for women is retarded and hampered on M.D. degree at Geneva, while MrS. Garfettt: &dCrson
was the first .womanwith anEnglish qG&fichtion.
all sidesby the poverty of most of their sex,those
women who arein a position to be.queath money Mrs. Anderson’s work showed what perseveiance a<d
pluck could do. Miss Jex-?dlalre ledtheEdinburgh
generally leave it to benefit men.
movement, tiut after a . long struggle the, .66men
’ ’ The Lady Guide
Association has removed to No. were defeated, with the result that they came , _ t o
20, Haymarket, S.W.
Miss Edith A. Davis, the London, and in 1874 the London School of Medicinje
proprietress, receives visitors on the third Tuesday in for ‘Wonlen was opened. A6:;tbat time no iiospital
each month from 4.30 to 6 O’clock. The usual would admit women for clinical instruction, ankl no
examining board would decide on their qualifications.
office hours are from 10to 6.
Then the Royal Free Hospital opened its wards, and
the King’s and Queen’s Colleges of Ireland granted a
Mrs. Ryan, who in hereffdrts to help the police was qualifying
diploma to women in medicine. In 9 8’the
knocked down and lciclccd?;yell deserved the .little degrees, of the London University were operie‘d ’to
present of thirty shillings;.g~ven toher by the police of them. The present position of medical womenis,
the X Division, in appreciatton of the plucky, way in according toMrs. Scharlieb, full ,of encouragement.
which she went to the rescue of a constable. Police- In the. Women’s School of Medicine there aye one
constable 371 X was beingbattered by a crowd of
and seventy students, and the proportlqn of
cowardlyroughs in Kensal New Town, when Mrs. Ryan hundred
those working for university degrees 1s unlque.
‘fought her way in, took the constable’s whistle, and ~houg11 theColleges of Physicians and Surgeons still
then, fighting her way out again, blew an alarm, and refuse admission to women, this is only a question of
brought assistance to thespot.
time. Medical women have only to be true to themselves, and
the
days will-, come when greater
I t is related of Christina Rodetti; who we are told opportunities of usefulness will be afforded them.
lived for two great purposes-the service of God, and
the practice of her art--that she put aside whatever
disturbedthis two-fold dedication. Twiceshe
was
offered marriage, and twice was conscious of an
attractiveness in the proposal. Each time she deter‘(MORE. TICAMPS
‘mined not to undertake obligations wl~ichmight come
IT is with the fear of the Editor before me, that .I
between herandthe
mainpurposes
of her life. venture upon a notice of a book that actuallyappeared
“Tremulousand shrinkirig as she seemed she was before theend of lastyear,!
But what is a poor
’ built in the most obstinate mould of martyrs.”
reviewer to do, sternly limited to one book a week,
when the 6‘ Output,” as our Mark would say, of books to
Her Imperial
Highness,
the
Grand
Duchess be noticed is so remarkable and SO simultaneous ? .
Elizabeth Mavrikievna, patron of the Blue.Cross
More Tramps Abroad” is crammed full of signs
Societyfor the Relief of Sickand Poor Children, that it came from the same mint thatcoined “ Hficlcleprivately visited an exhibition in St. Petersburg of the berry Finn ” and the“Innocents.”
It does’ not
works of modern English painters, for the benefit of contain another Tom Sawyer, nor an epoch-making
,the above society, and expressed her rntentlon to
* 1‘ More Tramps Abroad.” By Mark Twain. (Chatto and Windus,)
telegraph her thanks direct to the artists.
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